Note: Early 1912. Additions to letters published in "Lenin Collections," Nos. 1 and 2

As an appendix we print here the text of the most finished (fourth) manuscript of Vladimir Ilyich "On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," eliminating the abbreviations and square brackets which are used in "deciphering" words abbreviated by Vladimir Ilyich, and thereby giving the manuscript a fully "readable" appearance.

Appendix.

ON THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.

For elaboration in a pamphlet... the question breaks down into 4 major sections:

A)) The dictatorship of the proletariat as new forms of class struggle of the proletariat (otherwise: a new stage of it with new tasks).

B)) The dictatorship of the proletariat as the destruction of bourgeois and creation of proletarian democracy.

C)) The dictatorship of the proletariat and the peculiarities of imperialism (or the imperialist stage of capitalism).

D)) The dictatorship of the proletariat and Soviet power *).

Plan of elaboration according to these 4 sections:

I. (A) The dictatorship of the proletariat as new forms of class struggle of the proletariat.

1. The fundamental source of misunderstanding of the dictatorship of the proletariat among "socialists" is their failure to carry through to the end the idea of class struggle as compared with Marx (1852).

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the continuation of the class struggle of the proletariat, in new forms.

*) In the manuscript crossed out: "Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R." and written over: "power."
Ed.